Link: Photographs of People and Landscapes in Israel – TIME LightBox – LightBox
a photo project he has worked on for the past decade, crystallized in a new book, The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey. Israel’s pictures are the product of years of wanderings in Israel, in the Occupied Territories and in the spaces in-between, seeking to document a vision of its people and landscapes away from the noise of an intractable political conflict and the rumbling news media that watches it.
Over the next month, I will be sharing some of the photographers who attended Review Santa Fe in June. Review Santa Fe is the only juried review in the United States and invites 100 photographers to Santa Fe for a long weekend of reviews, insights, and c
The Afronauts: In 1964, still leaving the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first African on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/13/last-launch-dan-winters-and-the-shuttle-program/#1
Dan Winters, who grew up during the golden age—the Cronkite Age—of space reporting, is one of the photographers who has mastered the craft best. As the images that follow—taken from his new book, Last Launch—show, he has proven himself a virtuoso at his work. His pictures can practically singe your eyebrows and set you squinting with their brilliance, while at the same time capturing the black smoke and deep clouds that are often the counterpoint to the fires of liftoff
Chris Ware, who is widely-known to dismiss in self-deprecating tones any personal merit adjoined to his work (rumour has it he is collecting up and destroying one of his earliest published endeavours), is perhaps not ready to receive this thanks or the praise his latest, indubitable magnum opus Building Stories will inspire. But applause it will get (and probably stunned silence quickly followed by imaginative combinations of swear words, as was the case in our studio when this advance copy arrived).
Newsprint is increasingly popular among photographers, offering a cheap and effective way to publish a story, while reaching a larger audience. Olivier Laurent speaks with photographers who have embraced the medium
The street photographer André J. Hermann takes Instagram pictures, prints them and binds them in a book. Then he hides them, leaving photo clues for enterprising followers.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/hiding-and-seeking-a-photo-book/?pagewanted=all
For the past two months, he’s been taking his Instagram images, printing them, bundling them into books, and hiding them in nooks and crannies around San Francisco. He’s hidden 16 one-of-a-kind books, and he’ll hide four more over the next few weeks.
Link: Witnesses to War – NYTimes.com
Michael Kamber decided that someone had to gather all of his fellow photojournalists’ accounts and unpublished images in one place so there would be, in his words, “an accurate history.” So he took on the task himself and started formally recording his colleagues. He has collected 39 of these interviews in a book, “Photojournalists on War.”
Link: The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII | La Lettre de la Photographie
The VII agency has a book coming out featuring a selection pictures of historic events of the last twenty years. This is photojournalism in its purest state, a reminder of the role played by talented photographer
Is This Place Great or What . Photographs by Brian Ulrich. Published by Aperture, 2011. Is This Place Great or What Reviewed by Ge…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/05/photo-eye-book-reviews-is-this-place.html
Brian Ulrich’s book is great, and a real downer. If you resisted President Bush’s exhortations to shop America back to health after the events of 9-11-01, you may already be in line with the photographer. His Copia series, dating from 2001–2011, makes up the meat of this book. With mordant glee, the photographs insinuate that a decade of shopping has made us no better off; in fact, the rock we’ve been trying to shoulder up hill is flattening us.
www.cloudbreak.tv Awards/Mentions: New Yorker – Best books of 2012 POY 2013 – Best Photo Book of the Year 2012 Lucy Awards – best publisher (burn books) Paris…
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Photographs Not Taken is a book about photography in which there is not a single photograph. It’s a collection of essays by 62 photographers about the ones that got away: the images – burned to memory and conscience – that, for one reason or another, the
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/05/photographs-not-taken/all/1
Photographs Not Taken is a book about photography in which there is not a single photograph. It’s a collection of essays by 62 photographers about the ones that got away: the images — burned to memory and conscience — that, for one reason or another, the photographer could not make.
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This is Real Art have carved out a reputation for quality creativity across advertising, design and branding, but late last week they moved into new territory with the publication of their first book. Adam Hinton’s Shibuya is a collection of the photographs he took of Tokyo commuters, shot at the world’s busiest subway station over four days capturing intensely personal moments among the mass daily migration.
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A new book, Photographs Not Taken, conceived and edited by photographer Will Steacy compiles personal essays written by more than 60 photographers about a time when they didn’t or just couldn’t use their camera.
One to Nothing depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. These images go beyond politics: they do not defend a side or critique the conflict. Here, Israel is seen in an unexpected light, a mythological backdrop to the age long struggle between man and the dusty, sun bleached landscape of his origin. The score to this existential battle is locked at 1– 0, with no finish line in sight. A loose, subtle, and open-ended narrative One to Nothing describes a historic tension with striking and unusual observations.
(All images copyright 2012 The Topps Company, Inc., used by permission.) My kids and I have become deeply engrossed with the book Garbage Pail Kids, a fond look at the Topps bubblegum trading cards…
My kids and I have become deeply engrossed with the book Garbage Pail Kids, a fond look at the Topps bubblegum trading cards that were art directed by Art Spiegelman 25 years ago. This book, published by Abrams ComicArts, has all 206 images from the Garbage Pail Kids stickers produced in 1985 and 1986.
True Norwegian Black Metal. By Peter Beste. Published by Vice, 2009. True Norwegian Black Metal Reviewed by Tom Leininger _____…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/03/photo-eye-book-reviews-true-norwegian.html
I am not an expert on Norwegian Black Metal. This review will deal strictly with the book True Norwegian Black Metal, as I read and processed it over a number of days. Clearing my mind in this manner gave me the space to think about the work, and just the work, on the printed pages. It is not the music or the musicians, but Peter Beste’s interpretation of them that I am coming to grips with.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destructive potential of unbridled technological progress, at the time the Swiss military industry was producing weapons for World War II.
In this week’s issue, Francisco Goldman writes about the forced disappearance of as many as thirty thousand people by the military junta that ruled …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/the-disappeared.html?currentPage=all
Gervasio Sánchez’s book “Disappeared” explores the nightmare of forced disappearance not just in South America but around the world: Cambodia and Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Spain. The countries span the globe, but “the violence, the tragedy, the pain and loss and suffering, however, are the same,” Carmen Contreras Gomez, the managing director of the Obra Social Caja Madrid, writes in the introduction
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
20 Now: Contemporary Photographers is a book that presents 20 western photographers to South East Asia. From Adam Fuss to David Hilliard’s Panoralic photography, the book shows different approaches and ideas to the medium of contemporary photography.
